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HomeMy Public PortalAboutORD07262 a G ORDINi�NCE NO. ,3 2 6 2 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, IMISSOURI, REPELLING SECTIONS 2 THROUGH 16 INCLUSIVE OF ORDINANCE NUM13t,R 5933 and ORDINANCES NUMBERED 6072, 6257, 641.4, 6415, 6433, 6467, 6468, 6492, 6493, 6711, 6771, 6912, 69130 6968 6969, 7043 and 7044 OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, REGULATING THE PARKING OF MOTOR VEHICLES, AND ENACTING 1i NEW ORDINANCE RELA`.PING TO THE SAME SUBJECT, AND PROVIDING A PENALTY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Sections 2 through 16 of Ordinance Number 5933 and Ordinances Numbered 6072, 6257, 6414, 6415, 6433, 6467, 6468, 6492, 6493, 6711, 67710 6912, 6913, 6968, 6969, 7043 and 7044 of the City of Jefferson, Missouri, regulating the parking of motor vehicles be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Section 2. Definitions. For the purpose of this ordinance the following words s i 1 a� 1 have the following meaning: (a) The word 'vehicle' shall mean any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported 'upon a highway, except a device which is operated upon .rails or tracks. (b) The word 'street ' shall mean any public street avenue, road, alley, highway, lane, path or other public place located in the City of Jefferson, Missouri and established for the use of vehicles. (c) The word 'person' shall mean and include any individual, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation. (d) The word 'owner' shall mean every person in whose name the title of said vehicle is registered. (e) The words 'park' or 'parking' shall mean the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a street, otherwise than temporarily while engaged in receiving or discharging passengers, loading or unloading merchandise, in obedience to traffic signs or signals, or an involuntary r stopping of the vehicle for a cause beyond the control of the operator of the vehicle. (f) The words 'parking meter' shall mean and include any mechanical device or meter not inconsistent with this ordinance placed or erected for the regu- lation of parking by authority of this ordinance. Each parking meter that is installed shall indicate the legal parking time that is permitted and when operated shall at all times indicate the balance of legal parking time, and at the expiration of such period shall indicate illegal or overtime parking. (g) The words 'parking meter zone' shall mean and include any street, or portion thereof, upon which parking meters are installed and in operation. (h) The words 'parking meter space' shall mean any space within a parking meter zone, adjacent to al parking meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the curb or on the surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining the parking meters. Section 3. Parking meter zones; areas. The following named streets, within the areas designated, are declared to be parking meter zones : (a) Parking Meter Zone "A" The north side of High Street between Washington Street and Adams Street. The south side of High Street between a point located 200 feet east of Washington Street and Adams Street. The north side of Capitol Avenue between a point located 220 feet west of the west curb of Jefferson Street and Adams Street. The south side of Capitol Avenue between a point located 220 feet west of the west curb of Jefferson Street and Adams Street. The west side of Jefferson Street between Capitol Avenue and McCarty Street. The east side of Jefferson Street between Capitol Avenue and McCarty Street. The west side of Madison Street between State Street and McCarty Street. The east side of Madison Street between State Street and Capitol Avenue, and between the public alley known as Commercial Avenue and McCarty Street. The west side of Monroe Street between Capitol Avenue and McCarty Street. The east side of Monroe Street between Capitol Avenue and McCarty Street. The west side of Adams Street between Capitol Avenue and High Street The east side of Adams Street between Capitol Avenue and McCarty Street. (b) Parking Deter Zone "B" The south side of State Street between Madison Street and Monroe Street. The South side of High Street between Adams Street and Lafayette Street The north side of High Street between Adams . Street and Lafayette Street. The east side of Madison Street between t-tcarty Street and tfiller Street. '7rhe south side of McCarty Street between Jefferson Street and Madison Street. (c) Parking Meter Zone "C" The southerly twenty ( 20) feet of Inlot No. 484 in the city, extending a distance of 104 feet east of the east curb line of Monroe Street. Section 4. Parking s aces• improper parking. The street commissioner is hereby directed and authorized to mark off individual parking spaces in the parkindj zones designated and described in Section 3 of this ordinance and in such other zones as may be hereafter established, said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or durably marked on the curbing or surface of the street. At each space so marked it shall be unlawful to park any vehicle in such a way that said vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space so designated. Section 5. Installation of Rarking meters. Parking meters shall be installed in said parking meter zone upon the curb or sidewalk immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided for in Section 4 of this ordinance, said installation to be placed not more than two (2) feet from the curb nor more than four (4) feet from the front line of the parking space as indicated, and the Chief of Police shall be responsible for the regulation, control, operation maintenance and use of such parking meters. Each device shall f)e so located as to show the time of legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States of Amer{ca. Each device shall be so constructed that upon the expiration of the lawful time limit, it will indicate by a proper visible signal that the lawful parking period has expired and in such cases the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease. Section 6. Parkin2 meters to be observed. Except in a period of emergency determined by an of ice- o the police or fire department, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control signal or sign, when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space alongside or next to a parkin meter, the operator of said vehicle, upon entering the parking meter space immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said SN`�✓ meter sucI� proper coin of the United States as is required by such parking meter and as is designated by directions on the parking meter. Upon the deposit of such coin the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of time which has been prescribed for that part of the street in which said parking space is located., provided that any person placing a vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent to a parking meter which indicates that unused time has been left in the meter by the previous occupant of the space, shall not be required to deposit a coin so long as his occupancy of said space does not exceed the indicated unused parking time. Section 7. 0 eration of parking meters. Parking meters shall be operated in the parking meter zones every day between the hours of 9:00 A.14. and 6?00 P.M. excepting Sundays and Holidays, and on Fridays from 9 :00 A.M. until 9:00 P.14. The word 'Holidays' shall include only the following days: January is , February 12th and 22nd, April 13th, May 30th, July 4th, the first Monday in September, October 12th, November 11th, Thanksgiving Day, December 25th, any State primary election day or State general election day. Section 8. Parking time eriod• cost. Parking meter spaces within the parking meter zones hereinablve established may be used for the parking of a vehicle for the time period hereinafter established upon the deposit of the sum of money hereinafter prescribed: A. Parking meter spaces within arking meter zone A may be used for thirty (30) minute parking upon deposit of five (. 05¢) cents, or, sixty (60) minute parking, upon deposit of ten ( .10¢) cents. B. Parking meter spaces within parking meter zone B may be used for sixty (60) minute parking upon deposit of cents, or two hour parking upon deposi of ( . 20¢) cents. C: Parking meter spaces within parking meter zone X C may be used for thirty (30) minute parking upon deposit of five ( . 05¢) cents, or, sixty (60) minute parking, upon deposit of ten ( .10¢) cents. Section 9. Parkinci meter violations. (A) . It shall be unlawful and a violation of ordinance for any person: (a) To fail to deposit the correct coin in a parking meter upon parking a vehicle in the parking space adjacent thereto where there is no unused time • remaining bn the meter. (b) To cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of or operated by such person, to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time that is established for any parking meter. • �M ♦ I (c) To park.. within any parking meter space for a period of time in excess of that allowed by the parking meter, and parking for successive periods of time within the same parking meter space is prohibited. (d) `.Co deface, injure, tamper with, open or break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter. (e) To deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slugs, devices or metal substances, or any other substitute for lawful money. (B) In any prosecution charging a violation of this ordinance, proof that the vehicle described in the complaint was parked in violation of the ordinance, together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was at the time of such parking the registered owner of the vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of the vehicle was the person who parked or placed such vehicle at the point where, and for the time during which, such violation occurred. Section 9. Collection of meter money. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police, or any policemen icemen designated by him, to make regular collections of the money deposited in said parking meters by removing from the parking meters the sealed containers therein containing the coins deposited in said meters, and to deliver such sealed containers with the seals unbroken to the Chief of Police who shall count the coins contained therein and deposit such funds with the City Treasurer. Section 10. bloney into traffic and vehicle fund. The coins deposited in parking meters shall be deposited in the Traffic and Vehicle Fund and shall be used to defray the expenses of proper regulation of traffic upon the public streets, alleys and highways of the City of Jefferson, and to provide for the cost of supervision, regulation and control of the parking of vehicles in parking meter zones, and to cover the cost of purchase, supervision, protection, inspection, installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking meters. , Section 11. Violations; penalties. Any person who shall violate or fail to comply -with any of the provisions of this ordinance, or who shall counsel, aid or abet any such violation or failure to comply with the provisions of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $100. 00 pr by imprisonment not to exceed ninety (90) days, either or both penalties to be imposed at the discretion of the court. Section 12. Restricted Parking in parking meter zones. All bus stops, taxicab stands, unloading zones, non-metered reserved or restricted- parking areas, and no-parking zones presently existing on any street within any parking meter zone established by this ordinance shall continue in effect and not subject to the provisions of this ordinance. Section 13. Unconstitutionality clause. If any section or provision�Eof this ordinance, or parts there-of, shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole or of any other section or provision thereof. Section 14. Effective date. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Passed_; July 23 . 1942 Approved Julv 24, 1q_62 resiCdent f EY City o cil C. Mayo P. ALEX' Atte -,-.4 due Q. 43 - dZYjAr, Cit y ler HAROLD B. BAKER, Jr.